STOP WEARING FUR! I can’t handle it!!!

I’m sitting at home doing some work and getting ready for my first day at my new job tomorrow in Roundabout Theater’s THREEPENNY OPERA. I’m very excited and nervous as it’s my Broadway debut. I’m in the bedroom/office half listening to the TV in the living room. I’ve had on CNN for a while and they’ve repeated today’s top stories many times. I was just getting ready to change the channel when a new segment came on…. Fashion Week! I Love it! But my excitement quickly turns to anger.
I am so sick of fashion designers using fur and fur trims. We all know how it’s raised, treated and killed and yet we still glorify it. I hate preaching. But why don’t people think? feel? love? or care about these animals? It rips my soul out. I hate it so much. And I sometime hate the people who use it in their designs. The look of fur is fabulous. But a designer who uses it…is not! If you need to use fur to make your garments fabulous then you’re not a good designer. Give me a Stella McCartney any day!

It takes 50 to 80 animals to make 1 fur coat! Think about it.

Fur trims on skirts or scarves or jeans serves no purpose at all and animals were killed for no reason.

I know I’m hypersensitive about this, but I come from the Pacific Northwest where the love of earth and animals was a huge part of my upbringing. People don’t wear fur as much in the west and they do here in the East. I wish people would just stop for one second and think about it. I have many friends who say, “I don’t want to know.” And that’s sad.
I recently had a male friend come up to me in a huge fur coat yelling “Edie, Hi Girl” My usual joy to see him turned to horror when I saw his ghastly coat. I would normally greet him with a big hug and kiss. But I couldn’t even go near him, much less touch him for fear I would come in contact with his hideous coat.
Please think about it. We don’t need to wear it. It’s not fabulous. It’s TORTURE! PERIOD!
Sorry to preach but I can’t hold my tongue any longer. (though it is fun to hold your tongue and say APPLE!)
Much Love
EDIE